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The Ledingham Chalmers group, including both the law firm and its subsidiary Ledingham Chalmers Financial, saw turnover of £14.2 million in 2022/23 – its highest in more than 15 years. The law firm's turnover was £13.4 million while group turnover was £14.2 million, up from &

A panel of investment finance experts brought together to advise on how the Scottish Government can create the right conditions to attract global capital investment to support the physical infrastructure required for a just transition has published its first set of recommendations. In comi

Social landlord Link Group’s finance director Nick Pollard has led a discussion on how the challenging economic environment affects housing associations across the UK. In his opening remarks of the session called 'The UK Perspective' at the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations Finance C

Sustainable waste management firm Biffa has acquired Hamilton Waste and Recycling Limited (HWR), the Scottish construction and demolition (C&D) collection and processing business.

A Virgin Atlantic flight powered by cooking oil is set to make its inaugural journey today.

Macduff Shipyards has hailed a successful year as the firm posted a near-50% increase in pre-tax profits to £2.59 million. However, accounts lodged with Companies House reveal that for the year ended February 28 2023, turnover dipped to £28.9m from £29.5m in 2022, in the wake of ri

Scottish property portal ESPC has revealed that property sales in Scotland fall through far less frequently than in England, according to the latest data, which shows one in four sales collapsing in England, compared to around one in 12 across Scotland.

Scotch Whisky Investments (SWI) has toasted the opening of its new whisky storage and warehousing facility at Glenrothes in Fife. Comprising four whisky storage warehouses, maintenance and bottling buildings and offices, this £10 million investment marks the first phase of longer-term developm

Independent Scotch whisky distillery The GlenAllachie has been awarded a substantial grant from the Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF) to install technology that will improve its energy efficiency. Owned by Scotch whisky veteran Billy Walker, the Speyside-based single malt produc

UK business leaders understand the value of implementing new technology, but they don’t know how to measure it, according to new research from Deloitte. In a new report, Measuring Value from Digital Transformation, 1,600 global business and technology leaders across six different industries we

Stirling Distillery has filled its first whisky cask with newly made spirit - the first time whisky has been made in Stirling for 171 years.

Scotland’s first impact investor, SIS Ventures has released its inaugural Impact Report, highlighting the positive impacts on people and planet delivered by its investee companies. Since launching the Impact First Fund in 2018, SIS Ventures has invested more than £5.6 million in 14 high-

Pub company Three Thistles has instructed Shepherd Chartered Surveyors to sell a long-established portfolio of seven licensed premises stretching across Scotland’s Central Belt.

Inverness-headquartered engineering services company Ross-shire Engineering (RSE) has acquired Shrewsbury-based Chem Resist for an undisclosed sum. The firm announced a 75% majority investment in the firm which is a market leader in thermoplastic process plant, premium branded fluid transfer product

A handwritten lyric sheet for two of David Bowie songs is expected to sell for up to £100,000 when it is sold at auction. The sheet contains a series of corrections, drafts and notes written by the singer when he was creating his Rock n Roll Suicide and Suffragette City tracks.